CLICK ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------"O ne way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------That is our bottom line." ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." -- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." - ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998-- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."-- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."--------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- "Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."--------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999-------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------"T here is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs.--------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status.----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."---------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL, ) and others, Dec, 5, 2001-------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------"W e begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- Sen. Carl Levin (d, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seing and developing weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons,- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2000 *----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years .- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------We also should remember we have alway s underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002,------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability,------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- and his nuclear program.---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------"[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation.- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------NOW THE DEMOCRATS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH LIED, THAT THERE NEVER WERE ANY WMD'S AND HE TOOK US TO WAR FOR HIS OIL BUDDIES??? ---------- CLICK HERE ------ BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP --------- The United States currently grants automatic U.S. citizenship to almost all children born in the United States, regardless of whether the parents are U.S. citizens, legal residents, temporary visitors, or illegal aliens in the United States. Some 380,000 children are born in the United States each year to illegal-alien mothers, according to U.S. Census data. The only exceptions to this automatic granting of citizenship are the children of foreign diplomats stationed in the United States, whose citizenship at birth is governed by international treaty.---------- "ANCHOR BABIES" --------The children born in the United States to illegal-alien mothers are often referred to as "anchor babies." Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on U.S. soil.They are called anchor babies because, as U.S. citizens, they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including their illegal-alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. "anchor" for an extended immigrant family.While there is no formal policy that forbids DHS from deporting the illegal-alien parents of children born in the U.S., they rarely are actually deported. In some cases, immigration judges make exceptions for the parents on the basis of their U.S.-born children and grant the parents legal status. In many cases, though, immigration officials choose not to initiate removal proceedings against illegal aliens with U.S.-born children, so they simply remain here illegally.Thus, the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens not only represent additional U.S. population growth, but act as 'anchors' to eventually pull a large number of extended family members into the country legally. In fact, an entire industry has built up around the U.S. system of birthright citizenship. Thousands of pregnant women who are about to deliver come to the United States each year from countries as far away as South Korea and as near as Mexico so that they can give birth on U.S. soil. Some come legally as temporary visitors; others enter illegally. Once the child is born, they get a U.S. birth certificate and passport for the child, and their future link to this country is established and irreversible.Fourteenth Amendment DebateBirthright citizenship is based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was originally enacted to ensure civil rights for the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."A serious and scholarly debate has been on-going for years about whether illegal aliens (and temporary visitors) are, in fact, "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Some scholars insist that the phrase has no real meaning of its own, but rather is essentially another way of saying "born in the United States." They believe the Fourteenth Amendment requires that any child born on U.S. soil be granted U.S. citizenship. Other scholars look to the legal traditions observed by most courts, including the presumption that all words used in a legislation are intended to have meaning (i.e., not simply be restatements) and that, if the meaning of a word or phrase is unclear or ambiguous, the congressional debate over the legislation may indicate the authors' intent. These scholars therefore presume that "subject to the jurisdiction" means something different from "born in the United States," so they have looked to the original Senate debate over the Fourteenth Amendment to determine its meaning. They conclude that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment did NOT want to grant citizenship to every person who happened to be born on U.S. soil.The jurisdiction requirement was added to the original draft of the Fourteenth Amendment by the Senate after a lengthy and acrimonious debate. In fact, Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan proposed the addition of the phrase specifically because he wanted to make clear that the simple accident of birth in the United States was not sufficient to justify citizenship. Sen. Howard noted that the jurisdiction requirement is "simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already." Sen. Howard said that "this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."Sen. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, who was the only Democrat to participate in the Senate debate, was even more explicit about the meaning of the jurisdiction requirement: “[A]ll persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign Power -- for that, no doubt, is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before -- shall be considered as citizens of the United States.†Sen. Johnson's reading of the jurisdiction requirement also is consistent with our naturalization requirements. Since at least 1795, federal laws governing naturalization have required aliens to renounce all allegiance to any foreign power and to support the U.S. Constitution. Such allegiance was never assumed simply because the alien was residing in the United States; instead an affirmative oath was required.In light of these and other statements made during the Senate debate over the Fourteenth Amendment, it appears clear that the authors intended only to grant citizenship to persons born here who were also "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. They understood that phrase to have the same meaning as the phrase "and not subject to any foreign Power," included in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which these same Senators had earlier drafted. And by "subject to the jurisdiction," they meant "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States in every sense," and "[n]ot owing allegiance to anybody else."It would be difficult to argue that illegal aliens and temporary visitors are "not subject to [a] foreign [p]ower" or that they do not "ow[e] allegiance to anybody" but the United States. The Supreme Court, however, has never decided the issue. The closest it has come is a case involving the U.S.-born child of lawful permanent residents in which, of course, it held the child to be a U.S. citizen. In the absence of a ruling by the Supreme Court, it will remain up to Congress to clarify the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment or to accept the status quo.Original intent of the 14th Amendment The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads in part:"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. (Jackpot babies is another term).The United States did not limit immigration in 1868 when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. Thus there were, by definition, no illegal immigrants and the issue of citizenship for children of those here in violation of the law was nonexistent. Granting of automatic citizenship to children of illegal alien mothers is a recent and totally inadvertent and unforeseen result of the amendment and the Reconstructionist period in which it was ratified.Post-Civil War reforms focused on injustices to African Americans. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves. It was written in a manner so as to prevent state governments from ever denying citizenship to blacks born in the United States. But in 1868, the United States had no formal immigration policy, and the authors therefore saw no need to address immigration explicitly in the amendment.In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating:"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."This understanding was reaffirmed by Senator Edward Cowan, who stated:"[A foreigner in the United States] has a right to the protection of the laws; but he is not a citizen in the ordinary acceptance of the word..."The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was intended to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose allegiance to the United States was not complete. With illegal aliens who are unlawfully in the United States, their native country has a claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship.Supreme Court decisions The correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment is that an illegal alien mother is subject to the jurisdiction of her native country, as is her baby.Over a century ago, the Supreme Court appropriately confirmed this restricted interpretation of citizenship in the so-called "Slaughter-House cases" [83 US 36 (1873) and 112 US 94 (1884)]13. In the 1884 Elk v.Wilkins case12, the phrase "subject to its jurisdiction" was interpreted to exclude "children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States." In Elk, the American Indian claimant was considered not an American citizen because the law required him to be "not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance."The Court essentially stated that the status of the parents determines the citizenship of the child. To qualify children for birthright citizenship, based on the 14th Amendment, parents must owe "direct and immediate allegiance" to the U.S. and be "completely subject" to its jurisdiction. In other words, they must be United States citizens.Congress subsequently passed a special act to grant full citizenship to American Indians, who were not citizens even through they were born within the borders of the United States. The Citizens Act of 1924, codified in 8USCSß1401, provides that:The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: (a) a person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; (b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe.In 1889, the Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court case10,11 once again, in a ruling based strictly on the 14th Amendment, concluded that the status of the parents was crucial in determining the citizenship of the child. The current misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment is based in part upon the presumption that the Wong Kim Ark ruling encompassed illegal aliens. In fact, it did not address the children of illegal aliens and non-immigrant aliens, but rather determined an allegiance for legal immigrant parents based on the meaning of the word domicil(e). Since it is inconceivable that illegal alien parents could have a legal domicile in the United States, the ruling clearly did not extend birthright citizenship to children of illegal alien parents. Indeed, the ruling strengthened the original intent of the 14th Amendment.The original intent of the 14th Amendment was clearly not to facilitate illegal aliens defying U.S. law and obtaining citizenship for their offspring, nor obtaining benefits at taxpayer expense. Current estimates indicate there may be between 300,000 and 700,000 anchor babies born each year in the U.S., thus causing illegal alien mothers to add more to the U.S. population each year than immigration from all sources in an average year before 1965. (See consequences.)American citizens must be wary of elected politicians voting to illegally extend our generous social benefits to illegal aliens and other criminals. DEBUNKING LOOSE CHANGE 911 CONSPIRACY MYTH -- DEBUNKING LOOSE CHANGE 911 CONSPIRACY MYTH ------ DEBUNKING LOOSE CHANGE 911 CONSPIRACY MYTH -------------- CLICK JET BELOWSTOP THE INSANITY In WWII we did NOT ALLOW Italians, Germans and the Japanese to enter The USA. So why are we allowing These Trojan Horse (Terror CELLS) all Muslims to enter The USA in wartime? I am not saying that all Muslims are bad. I know that these Radical Islamic Terrorists will lie and deceive us to infiltrate The USA.-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- CHO THE VIRGINIA TECH GUNMAN is an evil deciple of muslim hatred. In the package that he sent to NBC he used his Arabic name A. Ishmael and a UK addressá'à writings consider him a lesser prophet. --- Do Not Be fooled. CHO THE VIRGINIA TECH GUNMAN is an evil deciple of muslim hatred. In the package that he sent to NBC he used his Arabic name A. Ishmael and a UK addressá'à writings consider him a lesser prophet.---------------------------------------------------- --------------------------The disturbing and cryptic video clips, photographs and manifesto the killer Cho Seung Hui sent to NBC News instantly reminded me of the taped testimonials suicide bombers leave behind to justify their crimes.It looked so familiar -- an angry young man dressed in battle clothing preaching a message full of hate in front of a drab background. I have seen many of these videos over the years in the Middle East.The attackers always stress a desire to battle injustice and moral turpitude; they all believe they are avengers of the righteous. The videos are also replete with religious references. Cho's message seems little different.Cryptic religious references Cho repeatedly mentions Christ, suffering and isolation. There appear to have also been references to the Koran.On the package sent to NBC, Cho uses the name "A. Ishmael." He is also reported to have had the words "Ismail Ax" tattooed or written on one arm.Ismail is the Koranic name of Abraham's first-born son. In one of the central stories of the Koran, God orders Abraham (called Ibrahim) to sacrifice Ismail as a test of faith, but then intervenes and replaces him with a sheep. Muslims reenact this story by sacrificing a sheep on Eid al-Adha (feast of the sacrifice) during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.While it is still unclear what Cho may have intended, his repeated references to Ismail (he signed his manifesto 'Ismail Ax') has been generating a lot of attention on Arab/Islamic blog sites on the Internet.Internet speculation The Islamic Threat website said: Cho "knew exactly the significance of the name in Islam as far as blood sacrifices are concerned which leads me to think that there might have been Islamic motivation behind the madness he displayed."The Angry Arab News Service website said: "The Chicago Tribune reports that Virginia Tech University massacre perpetrator, Cho Seung-Hui, died with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on one of his arms. Hmmm . . . Ismail -- the Arabic name for Ishmael -- considered the father of all Arabs and a very important figure in Islam. I'm sure it's just a coincidence, right? Doesn't mean anything. Right. Maybe "Ismail Ax" is the name of a friend of his. Or maybe he wanted to remind himself to buy an Ax for his friend Ismail for next Ramadan. Or I'm sure we'll hear some other similarly absurd ‘explanation.’ We'll see."Cho clearly was confused and angry. His manifesto seems the same: a confusing mix of martyrdom, religion, pop culture and multimedia technology.------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- IshmaelYi..ma?êl; Arabic: ???????, Isma'il; translates as ------"God will hear" ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Judaism has generally viewed Ishmael as wicked though repentant.-------------------------------------------------- -----------------[1] Islamic tradition, however, has a very positive view of Ishmael, ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------ascri bing a larger role to Ishmael in comparison to the Bible and viewing him ------------------------------------------------------------ -------as a prophet ------------------------------------------------------------ -------and the son of sacrifice ------------------------------------------------------------ -------(according to certain early theologians whose ideas prevailed later).[1][2] The Bah ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Since the massacre of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, the mainstream media have obsessed over the fact the crazed gunman was able to buy a Glock in the state of Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------Little attention has been paid to the Richmond legislators who voted to make "Hokie Nation," a Middle American campus of 26,000 kids, a gun-free zone where only the madman had a semi-automatic. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------Almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Cho Seung-Hui was not an American at all, but an immigrant, an alien. Had this deranged young man who secretly hated us never come here, 32 people would be heading home from Blacksburg for summer vacation. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------What was Cho doing here? How did he get in? ------------------------------------------------------------ ------Cho was among the 864,000 Koreans here as a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, which threw the nation's doors open to the greatest invasion in history, an invasion opposed by a majority of our people. Thirty-six million, almost all from countries whose peoples have never fully assimilated in any Western country, now live in our midst.------------------------------------------------------ ------Cho was one of them. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------In stories about him, we learn he had no friends, rarely spoke and was a loner, isolated from classmates and roommates. Cho was the alien in Hokie Nation. And to vent his rage at those with whom he could not communicate, he decided to kill in cold blood dozens of us. ------------------------------------------------------------ What happened in Blacksburg cannot be divorced from what's been happening to America since the immigration act brought tens of millions of strangers to these shores, even as the old bonds of national community began to disintegrate and dissolve in the social revolutions of the 1960s. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------To intellectuals, what makes America a nation is ideas – ideas in the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address and Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------But documents no matter how eloquent and words no matter how lovely do not a nation make. Before 1970, we were a people, a community, a country. Students would have said aloud of Cho: "Who is this guy? What's the matter with him?" ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------Teachers would have taken action to get him help – or get him out. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------Since the 1960s, we have become alienated from one another even as millions of strangers arrive every year. And as Americans no longer share the old ties of history, heritage, faith, language, tradition, culture, music, myth or morality, how can immigrants share those ties? ------------------------------------------------------------ -------Many immigrants do not assimilate. Many do not wish to. They seek community in their separate subdivisions of our multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual mammoth mall of a nation. And in numbers higher than our native born, some are going berserk here. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------The 1993 bombers of the World Trade Center and the killers of 9-11 were all immigrants or illegals. Colin Ferguson, the Jamaican who massacred six and wounded 19 in an anti-white shooting spree on the Long Island Railroad, was an illegal. John Lee Malvo, the Beltway Sniper, was flotsam from the Caribbean. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------Angel Resendez, the border-jumping rapist who killed at least nine women, was an illegal alien. Julio Gonzalez, who burned down the Happy Land social club in New York, killing 87. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------Ali Hassan Abu Kama, who wounded seven, killing one, in a rampage on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, was a Palestinian. As was Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------The rifleman who murdered two CIA employees at the McLean, Va., headquarters was a Pakistani. When Chai Vang, a Hmong, was told by a party of Wisconsin hunters to vacate their deer stand, he shot six to death. Peter Odighizuwa, the gunman who killed the dean, a teacher and a student at the Appalachian School of Law, was a Nigerian. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------Hesham Hadayet, who shot up the El Al counter at LAX, killing two and wounding four, was an Egyptian immigrant. Gamil al-Batouti, the copilot who yelled, "I put my faith in Allah's hands," as he crashed his plane into the Atlantic after departing JFK Airport, killing 217, was an Egyptian. ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the UNC graduate who ran his SUV over nine people on Chapel Hill campus and said he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah," was an Iranian. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------Juan Corona, who murdered 25 people in California, was a Mexican. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------"In our diversity is our strength!" So we are endlessly lectured. ------------------------------------------------------------ --But are we really a better, safer, freer, happier, more united and caring country than we were before, against our will, we became what Theodore Roosevelt called "a polyglot boarding house for the world"? ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------there are less than 400 Border Patrol agents along the 4,000 mile border with Canada, and less than 2,000 agents for interior enforcement. Further, there are at least 314,000 illegal aliens within the U.S. who were ordered deported (including 6,000 from the Middle East - excluding Israel) here on he loose. Those here claiming persecution include the '93 WTC bombing mastermind, and a Pakistani who undertook a shooting spree at CIA headquarters. Another entryway is through marriage - eg. Osama's personal secretary (and many others) became a U.S. citizen in '89 after marrying an American.It is estimated that one-fourth of "legal" immigrants are those who came illegally and then paid $1,000 and got someone to petition for residency.In the six months post 9/11, the Department of State issued 200,000 visas to those from the Mid-East (excluding Israel) and southern Asia. Part of that is facilitated through bribes. About 200,000 enter the U.S./year through H1-B visas (supposedly for high-tech personnel, though also allows fashion models and "essential support personnel"), over 1 million student visas/year (some provide bribes to achieve requisite grades and English proficiency scores), 11,000 enter as religious workers, and the biggest group - visitors - comprises 17 million/year.Our high tolerance for illegal Mexican immigration helps terrorists blend in, and they even helped the 9/11 terrorists obtain false identity documents. The varying, and sometimes close to non-existent standards for drivers' licenses are another major problem. Our split-personality on the topic is further reflected in NYC Mayor Bloomberg's promise to provide services to but not inform on the illegals within New York City - while the World Trade Center site was still smoking! (Previously Mayor Giuliani sued the federal government to ban enforcement of a law prohibiting local governments from banning their employees from informing the federal government about illegals.)In a chapter titled "Serial Incompetence" Malkin covers the case of Angel Resendiz ("Railway Killer") who freely entered and left the U.S. over a 25 year period while amassing convictions for trespassing, burglary, grand theft auto, etc., and being deported at least 7 times. In December of 1998 his fingerprints were found on a Houston murder victim's car. The INS was contacted for help, but failed to enter Resendiz' information into their computer system, and again they deported him. By June of 1999, Angel had killed four more before turning himself in; he subsequently admitting nine murders. Malkin also documents a general litany of INS computer breakdowns, and staff failure to use the computer systems.---------------What does it all mean? ----------- ------In a nutshell, it means this: ----------- The constitution of the United States does not grant citizenship at birth to just anyone who happens to be born within American borders. It is the allegiance (complete jurisdiction) of the child’s birth parents at the time of birth that determines the child’s citizenship--not geographical location. If the United States does not have complete jurisdiction, for example, to compel a child’s parents to Jury Duty–then the U.S. does not have the total, complete jurisdiction demanded by the Fourteenth Amendment to make their child a citizen of the United States by birth. How could it possibly be any other way?The framers succeeded in their desire to remove all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. They also succeeded in making both their intent and construction clear for future generations of courts and government. Whether our government or courts will start to honor and uphold the supreme law of the land for which they are obligated to by oath, is another very disturbing matter.----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- The Convert's Zeal Radical Islamism has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people. By Daniel Benjamin Posted Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, at 5:15 PM ETGerman security leads a suspected terrorist to court Much as this June's failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow focused attention on the participation of doctors and other professionals in jihadist terror, the plot disrupted in Germany this week seems certain to put the spotlight on another key group within violent Islamism: converts.We don't know much thus far about Fritz Gelowicz or Daniel Martin Schneider, the two German converts who were apprehended earlier this week along with Adem Yilmaz, who has been identified as a Turk. Another seven conspirators, about whom very little has been released, are also being hunted. But the hundreds of gallons of concentrated hydrogen peroxide—useful for bomb-building—they acquired, and the fact that, according to German officials, they had managed to train with the pros in Pakistan suggest that these operatives were, as one U.S. official put it, "the real deal."That may surprise people who have viewed the converts as being the oddest of the oddballs inside al-Qaida's big tent. There have been grounds for such thinking: Among the most famous are Richard Reid, the oafish would-be shoe bomber, and Jose Padilla, the former fast-food chicken flipper whose ability to construct a dirty bomb, as touted by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, was never proved. But to write them all off as misguided dullards would be a mistake. That there are so many of them tells us something important about the movement, because some are highly competent and have real operational advantages compared with other radicals.--------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------Their numbers are indeed astonishing. Converts have been involved in jihadist activity since before al-Qaida was fully formed. The "TERRSTOP" conspiracy to blow up landmarks and tunnels in New York City in the mid-1990s included two converts, Clement Hampton-El, an African-American who had been to Afghanistan, and Victor Alvarez, a dimwitted janitor turned gofer for the cell. (Though that conspiracy landed the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, in jail, a connection to al-Qaida was never asserted.) In Osama Bin Laden's empire, converts have always been well-represented. Wadih el-Hage, the Saudi's personal assistant and, later, the architect of the East Africa cells that carried out the 1998 embassy bombings, came from a Lebanese Maronite family. The American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, certainly had no problems being accepted in al-Qaida circles. More recently, Californian Adam Gadahn, aka Adam Pearlman, aka Azzam the American, has become a blogosphere celebrity as the English-language voice of al-Qaida.Well before the German bust, converts were turning up regularly in European terrorist operations. In the 1990s, several French converts, including brothers David and Jerome Courtailler, fought in Bosnia and later turned up in jihadist activities. A German, Christian Ganczarski, became a significant al-Qaida operative and was linked to a 2002 bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The Walters brothers, Jason and Jermaine, sons of a U.S. serviceman and Dutch mother, were members of the Hofstad gang, which included Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch-Moroccan assassin of film director Theo van Gogh in 2004. Jamaican-born, English-raised Germaine Lindsay was one of the four members of the cell that carried out the Tube attacks in London in 2005. In November 2005, Muriel Degauque, a 38-year-old Belgian baker's assistant and former Catholic, became the first female Muslim suicide bomber from Europe when she attacked a U.S. patrol in Iraq, wounding one soldier.---------------------------------- If that list doesn't suffice to make the case that radical converts represent a real danger, the example of Dhiren Barot, an Indian-born British-raised convert from Hinduism known as Issa al-Hindi, ought to clinch it. Barot carried out the surveillance of the New York Stock Exchange and the Citigroup Building in New York City and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Intelligence officers I spoke with described the reams of material he supplied as some of the highest-quality work they had ever seen. Barot, fortunately, is now serving a 30-year sentence in a British jail.One might have thought that terrorist organizations would be leery of converts and worry that they were unreliable or even suspect them to be moles. The opposite has been true. According to French sociologist Olivier Roy, 10 percent of al-Qaida's soldiers in the global jihad are converts, and in France the number might reach 25 percent. Roy takes this as an indicator of the group's globalized nature, "because a convert is not motivated by his or her culture at all. He is not motivated by the political life of his or her country. He's motivated by joining something global. Al-Qaida is made of born again [Muslims] and converts who join the global jihad. One day they go to Bosnia and another to Chechnya, or to Kashmir, or to Afghanistan, or to Fallujah."